Palladium is just a mechanism to securely store information on a computer. Securely storing data can mean storing it from malicous hackers, or from the actual user. Palladium does not take anything away from the user. It only gives users the option to download copyright protected material while ensuring that the copyrights are not violated.
If users want to illegaly download copyright material, Palladium won't stop them. It is just a means of protecting legal media. The outcry against palladium is not justified. It gives users more options and more freedom, not less.
-No I don't work for microsoft, and yes I use linux on the desktop (laptop actually: eMachines m6811 running fedora core 3... so hot).-
Money. Seriously whatever you plan on doing, offer five bucks to each student who shows up. Or maybe a free MP3 player at the end of the year if they went to all the sessions.
I remember we had a smoke-enders program at my school to get kids to stop smoking, and the only reason it was so successful is that they offered a free CD player at the end (assuming you stopped smoking).
Strained Silicon is one of the three, relativly new, big processing technologies that makes chips go faster without changing any of their design. I say relativly new because, as someone mentioned before, they have allready been used on some PowerPC chips.
The two other main technologies are Copper wiring (used by intel since the coppermine PIII 800Mhz) and something called silicon on insulator or SOI. SOI is, to the best of my knowledge, only being used at IBM for the G5s but I could be wrong.
Instead of using silicon as the base material and then etching away at it, SOI starts with an insulating material (normally some form of Silicon like SiO2) and then layers the silicon on top with Silane gas etc.
It's time to stop holding the programmer's hand. If I write a C program that makes 5 malloc() and 4 free(), the compiler should notice that and say, "Gee, you have a memory leak here" and refuse to compile. It should NOT say, "Well, what you're doing is provably unsafe and probably not what you want, but yes sir Mr. Developer, I'll happily crash the system for you!" It is NEVER correct to write unsafe code.
5 mallocs and 4 frees... void someFunction(){ int i; int * blah[5]; blah[0]=malloc(1); blah[1]=malloc(1); blah[2]=malloc(1); blah[3]=malloc(1); blah[4]=malloc(1); free(blah[0]); free(blah[1]); free(blah[2]); for(i=3; i<=5; i+=1) free(blah[i]); }
actually when talking about internet bandwidth 8*bits doesn't equal a byte. Normally for a single byte to get through there is a lot of overhead. When they spec out a internet line to 56 kilo BITS per second that doesn't include all of the TCP/IP overhead of the packets. Its pretty common for the overhead to be as large as 5 bits per byte. In every packet there is a MAC address, a 'to' IP address, a 'from' IP address a subnet mask, and multiple types of error control (CRC or parity bits I'm not sure, maybe both). In any case its not too crazy that your getting 13-14 bits per byte.
Conclusion - when the government turns a consensual activity like selling drugs, sex or wagers into a crime, the amount of real violent crime is actually increased
This would seem like the obvious conclusion however it is not necessarily true. Read "When Does Organized Crim Pay? A Transaction Cost Analysis" Andrew R. Dick, International Review of LAwn And Economics 15:25-45 1995.
I quote: Decriminalizing victimless crimes is a freqently proposed reform to deter organized criminal activity... Whether decriminalization would increase or decrease aggregate criminal activity is an empirical question... policies to raise the cost of business among organized criminal firms may simply alter the organizational form of a crime while having little impact on its net supply.
Stated simply, decriminaliztion does not garuntee anything.
Just because google is really good search engine websites doesn't mean that it will be #1 for searching for MP3s.
Yes they have very smart people working there. But give me a break there are smart people everywhere.
Google is just as likely to buy a p2p network as microsoft or intel or k-mart.
This article is about nothing written by someone who knows nothing.
Its really annoying that just because it is Microsoft everyone assumes that it is bad. Imagine how the children in PA feel that they have a brand new school with all of the latest software.
So what if they are not going to be immidatly exposed to linux and the open source movement.
They would not even have seen a computer if it wasn't for Gates genorosity.
This project is so unfeasible right now that its funny to me that people are arguing over details like this. No one (US and Russia) has clear plans on how to get a single human being to Mars and back, forget building a nuclear power plant.
I think they are jumping the gun on this one. Lets build better and cheaper space vehicles before we start colonizing other planets.
Just because you can download linux for free doesn't make it free to implement.
How much money in training and new equipment do you expect Brazil to be spending in the switch to open-source?
Who cares how many burners they actually had? What does it matter which law enforcment agency they used?
Its kind of annoying that everyone blindly hates the RIAA. True they are money grubbing capitalists however in America everyone is. This huge industry is seeing its profits slowly crumble because the general public can easily steal from them.
Sorry this is slightly off the subject I just wanted it to get off my chest. And by the way I'm a huge hipocrite, I use file sharing to get everything but at least I admit its wrong.
I'm not sure I fully understand. If there are no guns then how will there be crimes with guns. Why not just let everyone have knives to defend themselves. Then there will only be crimes with knives. After that why not ilegalize knives so all crimes involving knives disapear. Then people can only commit crimes with mace. Then we should illegalize mace so that only...
I was recently trying to find information relating school shootings and the number of incidences which youth bring guns to school to laws in that particular state. Does anyone have information specifically on school shootings and weapons in general at schools?
Well you can't blame him. Most tweekers and hackers are proud to admit they never picked up one book or went to a single class. Its just a matter of how efficiently you want to learn.
>This is the whole basis for virtual memory
It is a very good use of virtual memory but probably one of its most important is to deny programs access to operating system, device and physical memory. If there was no virtual memory than any program can access all of the RAM and cause some real problems. This is all pointless however because I'm sure you can do this even with virtual memory.
The internet is a utility and should be treated as such. They should bill like the power compaines do. The bill would state how much you downladed (bits or mega bits or giga bits) and they should chage for every bit you download. They may have some additional overhead charges but overall that would be more fair, and there would be no limitations on how much you can download.
It costs a whole lot for a portable camera. Even cheap ones are still around five bucks. However you can get those 100uF capacitors for 50 cents a pop. Why do it the hard and expensive way? The only cool thing about the cameras are their transformers which can take a small battery and give it 300V.
In the mid 19th centry when napolean began conquering all of the different countries in europe he had his scientists devise a new method for measutment that he could impose on his subjects. The scientists came up with what is currently called the metric system. Because napolean conquered most of europe, most of europe adopted the metric system. Napolean also created a metric time scale. However it didn't catch on in europe.
If it didn't catch on in europe then how could it ever work now.
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Palladium is just a mechanism to securely store information on a computer. Securely storing data can mean storing it from malicous hackers, or from the actual user. Palladium does not take anything away from the user. It only gives users the option to download copyright protected material while ensuring that the copyrights are not violated.
If users want to illegaly download copyright material, Palladium won't stop them. It is just a means of protecting legal media. The outcry against palladium is not justified. It gives users more options and more freedom, not less.
-No I don't work for microsoft, and yes I use linux on the desktop (laptop actually: eMachines m6811 running fedora core 3... so hot).-
Great Story, but I have no sympathy for big profit hungry coporations like Apple. They can make their own graphing calculator
Money. Seriously whatever you plan on doing, offer five bucks to each student who shows up. Or maybe a free MP3 player at the end of the year if they went to all the sessions. I remember we had a smoke-enders program at my school to get kids to stop smoking, and the only reason it was so successful is that they offered a free CD player at the end (assuming you stopped smoking).
Strained Silicon is one of the three, relativly new, big processing technologies that makes chips go faster without changing any of their design. I say relativly new because, as someone mentioned before, they have allready been used on some PowerPC chips.
The two other main technologies are Copper wiring (used by intel since the coppermine PIII 800Mhz) and something called silicon on insulator or SOI. SOI is, to the best of my knowledge, only being used at IBM for the G5s but I could be wrong.
Instead of using silicon as the base material and then etching away at it, SOI starts with an insulating material (normally some form of Silicon like SiO2) and then layers the silicon on top with Silane gas etc.
actually when talking about internet bandwidth 8*bits doesn't equal a byte. Normally for a single byte to get through there is a lot of overhead. When they spec out a internet line to 56 kilo BITS per second that doesn't include all of the TCP/IP overhead of the packets. Its pretty common for the overhead to be as large as 5 bits per byte. In every packet there is a MAC address, a 'to' IP address, a 'from' IP address a subnet mask, and multiple types of error control (CRC or parity bits I'm not sure, maybe both). In any case its not too crazy that your getting 13-14 bits per byte.
For slightly more than the cost of two DVD movies, I figure it's worth having a spare DVD player around the house
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Conclusion - when the government turns a consensual activity like selling drugs, sex or wagers into a crime, the amount of real violent crime is actually increased
This would seem like the obvious conclusion however it is not necessarily true. Read "When Does Organized Crim Pay? A Transaction Cost Analysis" Andrew R. Dick, International Review of LAwn And Economics 15:25-45 1995.
I quote:
Decriminalizing victimless crimes is a freqently proposed reform to deter organized criminal activity... Whether decriminalization would increase or decrease aggregate criminal activity is an empirical question... policies to raise the cost of business among organized criminal firms may simply alter the organizational form of a crime while having little impact on its net supply.
Stated simply, decriminaliztion does not garuntee anything.
You need two G5's to come close to any of the other chips including pentium 4. So that means that the other chips are twice as fast as the G5.
Just because google is really good search engine websites doesn't mean that it will be #1 for searching for MP3s. Yes they have very smart people working there. But give me a break there are smart people everywhere. Google is just as likely to buy a p2p network as microsoft or intel or k-mart. This article is about nothing written by someone who knows nothing.
Its really annoying that just because it is Microsoft everyone assumes that it is bad. Imagine how the children in PA feel that they have a brand new school with all of the latest software. So what if they are not going to be immidatly exposed to linux and the open source movement. They would not even have seen a computer if it wasn't for Gates genorosity.
This project is so unfeasible right now that its funny to me that people are arguing over details like this. No one (US and Russia) has clear plans on how to get a single human being to Mars and back, forget building a nuclear power plant. I think they are jumping the gun on this one. Lets build better and cheaper space vehicles before we start colonizing other planets.
Just because you can download linux for free doesn't make it free to implement. How much money in training and new equipment do you expect Brazil to be spending in the switch to open-source?
What about timing? Movie execs time the release of their movies precisly to maximize ticket sales.
Also how about promotion? A movie could be great but no one will see it if they don't know about it.
Who cares how many burners they actually had? What does it matter which law enforcment agency they used? Its kind of annoying that everyone blindly hates the RIAA. True they are money grubbing capitalists however in America everyone is. This huge industry is seeing its profits slowly crumble because the general public can easily steal from them. Sorry this is slightly off the subject I just wanted it to get off my chest. And by the way I'm a huge hipocrite, I use file sharing to get everything but at least I admit its wrong.
I'm not sure I fully understand. If there are no guns then how will there be crimes with guns. Why not just let everyone have knives to defend themselves. Then there will only be crimes with knives. After that why not ilegalize knives so all crimes involving knives disapear. Then people can only commit crimes with mace. Then we should illegalize mace so that only...
I was recently trying to find information relating school shootings and the number of incidences which youth bring guns to school to laws in that particular state. Does anyone have information specifically on school shootings and weapons in general at schools?
Well you can't blame him. Most tweekers and hackers are proud to admit they never picked up one book or went to a single class. Its just a matter of how efficiently you want to learn.
don't belittle any college education. Just because some don't go to the top tier doesn't make their education worthless.
>This is the whole basis for virtual memory It is a very good use of virtual memory but probably one of its most important is to deny programs access to operating system, device and physical memory. If there was no virtual memory than any program can access all of the RAM and cause some real problems. This is all pointless however because I'm sure you can do this even with virtual memory.
The internet is a utility and should be treated as such. They should bill like the power compaines do. The bill would state how much you downladed (bits or mega bits or giga bits) and they should chage for every bit you download. They may have some additional overhead charges but overall that would be more fair, and there would be no limitations on how much you can download.
It costs a whole lot for a portable camera. Even cheap ones are still around five bucks. However you can get those 100uF capacitors for 50 cents a pop. Why do it the hard and expensive way? The only cool thing about the cameras are their transformers which can take a small battery and give it 300V.
In the mid 19th centry when napolean began conquering all of the different countries in europe he had his scientists devise a new method for measutment that he could impose on his subjects. The scientists came up with what is currently called the metric system. Because napolean conquered most of europe, most of europe adopted the metric system. Napolean also created a metric time scale. However it didn't catch on in europe.
If it didn't catch on in europe then how could it ever work now.
Another page gone down *sigh*. It wouldn't be a bad idea if the good guys at slashdot would cache some of these pages before releasing them to the slashdot community. It seems that out of the last ten headlines three or four of them were killed within minutes.
I don't know if we the search engine is too slow or if the slashdot traffic just knocked it out but something seems terribly wrong.